Don't use the back button - it wipes everything!!!! If it's someone's Masters I feel really sorry for them trying to analyse all those open ended questions *if* they get 2,500 responses... but then people always imagine they'll get more responses than they get. Returns are always poor. Except on one of the train lines I used to commute on and then we'd come to blows almost trying to get a questionnaire so we could tell them just how we felt...

Ha. Glad I'm not the only one disappointed by Teachers' Voices. The latest thing there (about 'failure') had me jotting down things that morphed into a 4-page Word document which I am NOT going to post in TV. The more I wrote the more uneasy I became and, as has been said earlier here, it's all about ABRSM aiming to target money-making opportunities.
I know I am far from alone in being very disgruntled by ABRSM's 'service' particularly in the last year...
BPx

Ha. Glad I'm not the only one disappointed by Teachers' Voices. The latest thing there (about 'failure') had me jotting down things that morphed into a 4-page Word document which I am NOT going to post in TV. The more I wrote the more uneasy I became and, as has been said earlier here, it's all about ABRSM aiming to target money-making opportunities.
I know I am far from alone in being very disgruntled by ABRSM's 'service' particularly in the last year...
BPx

Yes, same here. I'm all for ABRSM's publishing arm producing some imaginative and well-thought out titles that could fill existing gaps. But as an organisation, I would rather they put their time and resources into their core offering- organising and carrying out examinations. Without doing that well, they can be offering all the additional money-spinners in the world but to my mind are failing.

I found the adult survey interesting but really disliked one of the questions where they asked about our own experiences of adult learning and asked us to tick what was most important. This really assumes that all forms of learning are the same when of course they aren't. I'm a bit of an adult learning addict and I ask very different things from different formats and types of learning in terms of the time I expect to put in and what content I expect to receive.

First question tick which country you are in. I have to tick "other".
Clicked on Next and got;
"Thank you for answering our Adult Learning survey. Your thoughts will directly impact ABRSM's strategic development of an offer for adults. Happy music-making!
Best wishes
ABRSM"

(Tried again, same. Went back and ticked England and the next page opens fine!)
What message does this send to the international community who use the exams? Oh, maybe they're in full Brexit mode!!

Curiousity got the better of me so I opened the adult learners part.
First question tick which country you are in. I have to tick "other".
Clicked on Next and got;
"Thank you for answering our Adult Learning survey. Your thoughts will directly impact ABRSM's strategic development of an offer for adults. Happy music-making!
Best wishes
ABRSM"
(Tried again, same. Went back and ticked England and the next page opens fine!)
What message does this send to the international community who use the exams? Oh, maybe they're in full Brexit mode!!

What a strange idea.
Many teachers here feel the ABRSM has written off the home market in favour of the Far East.
I too got taken to the Thank You page rather early, but it was after a different question.

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